Collar-button.



v EGBERT REED, SR.,` OF DENVER, COLORADO.

COLLAR-BUTTON'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, i908.

Application led March 25, `190'2. Serial No. 364,553.

To all whom 'tt may concern:

Be it known that I, EGBERT W. REED, Sr., a citizen of the United Statesof America, re-

siding at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar- Buttons, ofwhich the following is a specification. y

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in vcollarbuttons and more especially in the kind of buttons employed to connectthe rear portion of the collar to the neckband of the shirt.

The object of my invention is to provide the button with means whichbeing attached to the head thereof, may be brought in engagement withthe necktie surrounding the collar, for the purpose of preventing itsmovement after the same has been properly adjusted. I attain this objectby the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings in the variousviews of which like parts are similarly designated and in which Figure 1represents a sectional, fragmentary view of a shirt, collar and necktiewith my improved button in operative position, Fig. 2 a sectional,exaggerated view of a button with its head and the necktie holder in thefolded position, Fig. 3- a similar view with the parts in the operativeposition, Fig. 4- an inside elevation of the button head with myattachment in the position shown in Fig. 3, Fig. 5 a similar view of thehead with the holder in the position illustrated in Fig. 2, and Fig.- 6-an enlarged, longitudinal sectional view of the lower portion of thehead and the necktie holding means.

Referring to the drawings, the reference character 5 designates the shoeof the collar button, 5a the therewith rigid shank and 4 the head whichin the construction shown may be folded in alinement with the shank forthe purpose of facilitating its insertion in the buttonholes of theshirt and collar. I wish it understood, however, that the means employedby me to maintain the necktie in its adjusted position' are independentof the particular construction -of the head or the latters relation tothe shank and that, for this'reason, it. may be applied as effectivelyto buttons whose head is rigid with its shank as to the buttonillustrated in the drawing.

The means for holding the necktie consist lof a pin or spur '6, formedat one of its eX- tremities with an apertured knuckle 6a and pivotallyconnected with the lower portion of the head 4 by means of a pin 7 whicheX- tends laterallyvthrough the aperture in the knuckle 6a and therewithregistering apertures in the inturned sides of the head.

When not required for immediate use, or when the head is being insertedthrough the button holes of the collar and the neckband of the shirt,the spur may be moved inwardly so as to lie along -the inner surface ofthe head 4 as is shown in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, while, when inthe operative position illustrated in Figs. 3 and 5, it projectsinwardly and approximately at right angles thereto.

The operative position of the device. is

illustrated in Fig. 1. of the drawings in whichthe numeral 2 designatesthe shirt, 1 the thereto attached collar and 3 the surrounding necktie.The spur 6 on the head 4 of the button which connects the collar to theshirt band, projects inwardly from the latter in the direction of theshoe 5 and by engagement with the necktie, maintains it in its adjustedposition.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is The combination'witha collar button of a pin hingedly connected with its head, normally insubstantially parallel relation to its shank, the said pin being of lesslength than the shank so as to engage a scarfband interposed between thehead of the button and a shirt band in which the said button is i11-serted.

' EGBERT W.'REED, SR. Witnesses:

JENNIE A. HAMILTON, LOUIs O. PIERCE.

